We're reading here in Proverbs 4 and also Proverbs 18.

I'm going to read this to you in the King James and then also the Amplified.

Proverbs chapter 4 and then we're going right directly from there to Proverbs 18

In Proverbs 4 20

He said my son attend to my words

Incline thine ear unto my sayings, let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them in the

midst of thine heart, for their life unto those that find them, and health of the margin says

medicine to all their flesh, keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues

of life.

Or the amplified there says, keep your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard,

for out of it, out of your heart, flow the springs of life.

Now he says this in connection with talking about healing, doesn't it?

Because, you know, the very previous verse said, you know, his words are life to those that find

him in health or medicine to all their flesh. And immediately when he gets through saying medicine to all their flesh, you know, his words are life to those that find them in health or medicine to all their flesh.

And immediately when he gets through saying medicine to all their flesh, he says,

keep your heart, guard your heart.

Because out of your heart are the flow and the issues, the springs of life.

Now in the 18th chapter of Proverbs, you see something else along this line, Proverbs 1814,

he said the spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear.

Or as the amplified says,

the strong spirit of a man

will sustain him in bodily pain or trouble,

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